The Execution of a Persian Subject by the Ottoman Authorities at Baghdad [‎545v] (8/20)

[No. 2.]
Shah Riza, one of the brigands who ha*
and was taken alive examined,
Question.
Shah Riza, of what Government are
you a subject?
Oh! Shah Ali Riza, where did they
seize you ?
Did you leave Perisa with Syud
Kasim, is it so ?
Did you come as a guest to Baba
Hadi’s house at Kuratoo ? Did Mah-
mood, of Kuratoo, join you there on
the next day ? On second day did you
leave that place and go to Syud
Hawas, near Kesr, as guests ? On the
third day you arrived at Jemsbir, on
the fourth day you left that place and
slept in the desert of twelve imams,
dependency of Sulahieh in the Turkish
territory, and you started from that
place, your provision having been ex
hausted, came to Kebre Ghermek in
the Kalkanloo; you asked Yoosef of
that place to give food for money,
first he refused to give, afterwards he
gave you. Is your coming as above
stated ?
i come to the neighbourhood of Dakook,
—dated \st Jemazil-awul 1288.
Answer.
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I am Persian subject; a mulazem in
the Persian army under the command
of Azeez Khan ; in Persia they call me
Begzadeh Sirbaz.
They seized me in a place which I
dont know; at the time when they seiz
ed me they told me that that place was
called Tawook, i. e. } Dakook.
I came alone from Kaleh Zenjir to
Zohab ; thence I went up the mountain
of Panzerdeh, there I met Syud Kasim.
Syud Kasim had two companions with
him ; he told me that he was going to
Kalkanloo village within the Turkish
frontier, to the house of Syud Hussein
and Khurshid Agha to leave his
family with them for safety. A spare
mare that he had with him he gave
me to ride, and told me— <c Bide the
mare and come with me ; whatever
may fall into my hands I will give
you, or I will give you 5 or 10 karans.”
I rode the mare and accompanied Syud
Kasim to Kasr-i-Shireen, thence to
Jemshid, and from there, crossed the
frontier, came to Binkudreh,—myself,
Syud Kasim, and the two companions he
had with him, four of us. Of the said
two men, the name of one was Syud
Mahomed and of the other Syud Wall,
Yes, it is so,
Did five of you together leave that Yes, it was so.
place and go to Kalkanloo, Syud Hus
sein’s village ? Not finding Syud Hus
sein there, you had left that place and,
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